[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] kernel patches cleanup

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Aug 7, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7 August 2017 at 21:20, Philip Prindeville
> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>>> On Jul 31, 2017, at 10:11 AM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I rebased my ages old kernel patch cleanup series. It can be found here [1].
>>> 
>>> the series annotates all patches and splits them up into 3 folders backports/pending/hacks.
>> 
>> 
>> What’s the criteria for each?
>> 
>> And isn’t “hacks” kind of self-defeating?  If someone submits a PR that adds something to “hacks”, won’t the default position be, “since this is admittedly a hack, it’s not really needed and you should find a more compelling fix”?
> 
> Sometimes getting upstream-acceptable solution takes months (or
> years), so I'm OK accepting well-described and argumented "hacks”.


Fair enough.

-Philip